Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:36:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: tar incremental backup issue Message-ID: <20040722143609.GC3457@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040722143029 DOT 88743 DOT qmail AT web21101 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040722143029.88743.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Alex Song wrote: >I'm relying on incremental feature of tar for my backup need. After >doing a lot of backups, I suddenly found an issue with this feature. > >It seems if you move a file with an earlier date to the directory, the >incremental backuped archive of this directory does NOT have this file! That certainly sounds like a generic issue with tar itself. In that case, it's a topic for another mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/